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Discourse and identity formation : parliamentary debates in Bahrain /
The book explores eleven debates held at the Bahraini Council of Representatives (or the Parliament) over 2007-2010, to comprehend how parliamentary discourse contributes towards identity formation within Bahraini society.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
| Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ;
v. 73. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Discourse and Identity Formation
- Edittorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Epigraph
- Dedication page
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Acknowledgements
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Transliteration system
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- The parliamentary dynamics and the Bahraini Council of Representatives
- Discourse in the Bahraini Council
- Themes of the book
- Chapterisation
- Scope and methodology
- Theoretical underpinnings
- Disclaimer
- Chapter 2. Religion, ideology and politics in Islamic society
- Introduction
- Ideological evolution in the Muslim world
- Construction of politics in Islam
- Islam and democracy
- Chapter 3. Language variation across Bahrain
- Language, religion and ideologies
- The Bahraini community
- Linguistic variations in Bahrain
- Standard Arabic, dialects and accents
- Bahrain dialect variations
- Borrowed vocabulary in Bahrain dialects
- Bahrain dialects and standard Arabic
- Chapter 4. Theoretical underpinnings
- Introduction
- The concept of power
- Power, ideology and language
- Formation and evolution of identity
- The role of discourse
- Society and discourse: Critical discourse analysis as a methodological tool
- CDS as a perspective
- CDS and politics
- Interdisciplinarity in CDS
- Common dimensions of CDS approaches
- Features of CDS
- Sociocognitive Approach (SCA) as a methodological device
- Social cognition
- Context in SCA
- Criticisms of CDS
- SCA and theories of deliberative democracy
- Discursive categories in Bahrain parliamentary debates
- Key aspects of the analytical framework
- Focusing upon a social problem that has a semiotic aspect
- Identifying obstacles to the social problem being tackled
- Deciding if the social order "needs" this problem
- Identifying possible ways past the obstacles.
- Reflecting on the analysis
- Chapter 5. Ideology, identity and discourse: Evidence from parliamentary debates during 2008-2010
- Introduction
- Structure of the Bahraini parliament
- Discourse in the Bahraini parliament: An overview
- Three discursive strategies
- Corroborating by information
- Intensifying grievance
- Centralising pride and dignity
- Discursive devices
- Emotions in discourse
- Taking emotions unemotionally
- Variables affecting emotions
- Emotions and language
- Arabic language rhetoric
- Style
- Speech acts
- Ideology, identity and discourse: Evidence from Bahrain parliamentary debates
- 1. The use of teargas: From sitting 2:2:16, 12 Feb. 2008
- A reproach: A backgrounded disagreement
- A combination of grievance and information
- Bahrain's international image as a perspective
- Disappointment
- 2. The debate on Bahraini detainees abroad: From sitting 2:2:25 a, 22 April 2008
- 3. Insulting the government: From sitting 2:2:25 b, 22 April 2008
- 4. Condemning a "Terrorist" Plot: From sitting 2:3:10, 30 Dec. 2008
- Beyond the text: on the background to the conflict
- Analysis of the excerpt
- a. In-groupness and out-groupness
- 5. The arrest of political activists: From sitting 2:3:13, 27 Jan. 2009
- 6. Big and small thieves: From sitting 2:3:23, 7 April 2009
- Political wit
- Background to excerpt
- 7. Eavesdropping: From sitting 2:4:3, 20 Oct. 2009
- 8. The arrest of A. Hassan (a): From sitting 2:4:10, 22 Dec. 2009
- 9. The arrest of A. Hassan (b): From sitting 2:4:11, 29 Dec. 2009
- 10. Censoring a speech: From sitting 2:4:24, 30 Mar. 2010
- 11. Activating a punishment decision: From sitting 2:4:28, 27 April 2010
- Chapter 6. Discursive approaches and political ideology in Bahrain
- Discursive devices and strategies in parliamentary discourse: A Synthesis.
- Employment of discursive strategies
- Employment of discursive devices
- Strategies and devices among political parties
- Manifesting power
- 1. Protesting against the establishment
- 2. Confrontation of opposing perspectives
- 3. Striving for legal reform
- Marking identities
- The ideology of protest
- A step towards overt criticism
- Deliberative democracy and political stability
- Chapter 7. Bahrain's ongoing quest for deliberative democracy
- The third and fourth legislative period 2010-2014
- Public discourse and the unrest of 2011
- A sum up
- Role of parliament in society
- Political discourse in the Council of Representatives
- Employment of discursive devices
- Employment of discursive strategies
- The emancipatory potentials of discourse
- Bibliography
- Appendix A. Collecting and presenting data
- The criteria for choosing data
- A. Hansard
- Suitability of Hansard
- B. Translation and transliteration
- C. Using newspapers
- Appendix B. Agenda topics matched to items in Hansard
- Appendix C. The excerpts
- 1. Teargas: From Sitting 2:2:16, 12th Feb. 2008, pp. 62-73
- 2. Bahraini detainees abroad: From Sitting 2:2:25 a, 22nd April 2008, pp. 19-20
- 3. Insulting the government: From Sitting 2:2:25 b, 22nd April 2008, pp. 43-44
- 4. Condemning a "terrorist" plot: From Sitting 2:3:10, 30th Dec. 2008, pp. 95-99
- 5. The arrest of political activists: From Sitting 2:3:13, 27th Jan. 2009, pp. 4-6
- 6. Big and small thieves: From Sitting 2:3:23, 7th April 2009, pp. 103-104
- 7. Eavesdropping: From Sitting 2:4:3, 20th Oct. 2009, p. 15
- 8. The arrest of Abdali Hassan (a): From Sitting 2:4:10, 22nd Dec. 2009, pp. 6-7
- 9. The arrest of Abdali Hassan (b): From Sitting 2:4:11, 29th Dec. 2009, p. 6
- 10. Censoring a speech: From Sitting 10, 30th March 2010, pp. 78-79.
- 11. Activating a Punishment Decision: From Sitting 2:4:28, 27th April 2010, p. 43
- Appendix D. Offences affecting external state security
- Glossary
- Index.